Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies
Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-card-not-allow-purchase-215259906.html
On August 3, 2019 4:18:59 PM UTC, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-card-not-allowp
Surprise, surprise heh ;) The shitty thing, for me, is macOS is actually a pretty decent UNIX laptop & workstation OS. It sure as fuck is not all FOSS, but large portions of it are. I don't know why they invented APFS instead of using ZFS, and I don't like the tight iCloud integration (which is at least optional), and lots of other technical quibbles, but basically it's been a good desktop UNIX over the years. (I don't like iPhones at all, have always preferred Android device with a custom ROM - or a cheap burner phone). However, I'm finally switching to Linux for the laptop (main desktop switched back to Linux a while ago, and have used FreeBSD on personal servers for many years). Most of my time is spent inside of a shell in tmux anyway!
On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 02:11:26AM +0000, John Newman wrote:
On August 3, 2019 4:18:59 PM UTC, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
Apple Card will not allow purchase of cryptocurrencies https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-card-not-allowp
Walled gardens such as Crapple and FaceSlut shall always be walled, censored, backdoored, monitored, rights-destroying freedom graveyards. Nothing new there...
Surprise, surprise heh ;)
The shitty thing, for me, is macOS is actually a pretty decent UNIX laptop & workstation OS. It sure as fuck is not all FOSS, but large portions of it are.
Which is absolutely insufficient and rights destroying. But you know that.
I don't know why they invented APFS instead of using ZFS,
Ignorance is bliss as they say. Here's an eye opener for ya: ZFS is a filesystem and as such is not designed with walled garden freedom destroying primitives in its API. That might sound surprising, but Apple is a profit pursuing corporation - they are no Red Hat, that's for sure.
and I don't like the tight iCloud integration (which is at least optional), and lots of other technical quibbles, but basically it's been a good desktop UNIX over the years.
Perhaps you mean "apple's tight integration/control over hardware and drivers means I've had a relatively seamless, pain free desktop experience for a number of years using Crapple"?
(I don't like iPhones at all, have always preferred Android device with a custom ROM - or a cheap burner phone).
Your preferences are irrelevant. What's relevant is where freedom can be found. FLOSS and FLOSS alone, followed on its heels by OpenHW and free/open (or at least auditable) fabs, are our necessary foundations.
However, I'm finally switching to Linux for the laptop (main desktop switched back to Linux a while ago, and have used FreeBSD on personal servers for many years). Most of my time is spent inside of a shell in tmux anyway!
Give yourself a +1 sticker. And the day you get staunch and eliminate all proprietary from your life, you may give yourself a +10 sticker.
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